Psychoanalysis has contributed to the initiation and development of education from the twentieth century and onwards through schools, systems of education, and overall ideas. Ever since pioneers such as Anna Freud and Alfred Aichhorn have striven to reinvent educational practices through psychoanalysis, the interaction between the fields has developed in multiple and often interactive directions. Psychoanalysis has helped align insights into the development of the child with educational ambitions, often rooted in social or political concerns. This entry identifies five themes in which education and psychoanalysis have been brought together: in ideas on the formation of subjectivity, social relationality, phenomenological notions of development, the analysis of authoritarian personalities, and finally the identification of emancipatory goals. In this vein, psychoanalysis is aligned with education in schools of thought that insert education in broader social and political visions.